Credit: The Associated Press

A lottery ticket vendor holds her stand in front of the University of Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. Greece's central bank has joined the government in predicting that the country's economy will grow in 2014 following a savage six-year recession but cautioned about the impact of a heated political rivalry ahead of elections in May. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

ATHENS, Greece — Greece's euro partners agreed Tuesday to hand over a delayed billion euro ($1.4 billion) payment to the bailed-out country, just as its central bank warned over the economic impact of escalating political tensions.

Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch Finance Minister who heads the Eurogroup, said Greece had met the major conditions necessary for the latest loan instalment from its bailout package worth 240 billion euros ($330 billion).